CLOSE GLIMPSES OF THE KAISER
ON BOARD THE BALKAN EXPRESS
The correspondent of the Berlin "Lokal-Anzeiger," who was permitted to travel on tho train which took tho .Kaiser to, the Balkans and to liave luncheon in the restaurant car with the Emperor, sends the following to his newspaper: — ' "His Majesty sat down to the table with the observation that he had just read Professor Painleve's first speech as French Premier. • - "'So M.' .Painlevo wants Alsacc-Lor-rairie, does he?' exclaimed the. Emperor. 'Good, but lie must coine and take it.' ;
"Tiis Emperor then treated the com- ■ pany to a eulogy of the late King. Carl 1 • and Queen Elizabeth, of i Rumania, ' whoso good work, he said, 'has been , undone in a few months by the hunger ; for gold and power of certain agitators.' ; "At the conclusionof. the lunch, which consisted of * meat, and fish courses and bread, and cheese, about . the same as might be served in a middle-class household, the Kaiser .j, said " 'It is unworthy for any German to live well when even the best peoplo ro without things. What we have of foodstuffs is common property, which,
by just division, is sufficient to keep us alive for an -unlimited time, and which permits us to await final victory with calm. Who takes more than his share sins against those who serve the Fatherland.' "
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 82, 31 December 1917, Page 3
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225CLOSE GLIMPSES OF THE KAISER Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 82, 31 December 1917, Page 3
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